What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Richard Hakluyt]

For nearly 10 years now business investment has been low in the UK with business people complaining about uncertainty. It is arguable that the uncertainty has had a more chilling effect on investment than brexit itself.

Trump is bringing that sort of uncertainty to the whole world.

[Josquius]

On the "Trump won on vibes" point....

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/trump-2-poll-issue-questionsYou cannot see attachments on this board.


Pretty depressing.
Especially if people really prioritise making sure trans people suffer over everyone else having a decent life.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yeah, then there's no excuse for being that inconsiderate.


*edit* this brought up a old memory that I had totally forgotten about. Once, as a new employee, I worked at a company where as usual I used my anglicized name and everything was fine for a few months. Then one day I was part of a larger meeting with the owner and some of the upper management. One of which was a Portuguese lady who said my name the Portuguese way. This peaked the interest of the owner who you could tell felt bad that he "mispronounced" my name all this time. I tried explaining that only my family pronounces it that way (and even then only those fluent in Portuguese). But he insisted so myself and the Portuguese lady tried to teach him with limited success. This was in the middle of the meeting mind you, so everyone was probably bemused, amused, or annoyed . He never quite got it right, but for the next 4 years it was like nails on chalk board when he said my name. I never said anything because it was both awkward because he was the owner and because I felt bad since he was trying to be inclusive. Thankfully it didn't catch on with my coworkers.

 

I found this interesting, though a minefield for someone with limited linguistic skills like me:


The enigmatic Portuguese R (long version)

It's pretty good actually. 
Standard is or used to be voiced alveolar tril and flap/tap. I am going by standard.

[mongers]

Yeah, then there's no excuse for being that inconsiderate.


*edit* this brought up a old memory that I had totally forgotten about. Once, as a new employee, I worked at a company where as usual I used my anglicized name and everything was fine for a few months. Then one day I was part of a larger meeting with the owner and some of the upper management. One of which was a Portuguese lady who said my name the Portuguese way. This peaked the interest of the owner who you could tell felt bad that he "mispronounced" my name all this time. I tried explaining that only my family pronounces it that way (and even then only those fluent in Portuguese). But he insisted so myself and the Portuguese lady tried to teach him with limited success. This was in the middle of the meeting mind you, so everyone was probably bemused, amused, or annoyed . He never quite got it right, but for the next 4 years it was like nails on chalk board when he said my name. I never said anything because it was both awkward because he was the owner and because I felt bad since he was trying to be inclusive. Thankfully it didn't catch on with my coworkers.

 

I found this interesting, though a minefield for someone with limited linguistic skills like me:


The enigmatic Portuguese R (long version)

It's pretty good actually. 
Standard is or used to be voiced alveolar tril and flap/tap. I am going by standard.

I might give it a go, reading about learning a language rather than trying and failing to speak Portuguese. 

[Razgovory]

The LGBT thing surprised me on the poll.  I guess Legbiter was correct, we are seeing preference falsification.

Oh, and we fired 800 people from NOAA.  I kept help but think that weather predictions is something useful the government does.

[Habbaku]

I like that this Presidency has managed to already generate an actual death counter:

https://pepfar.impactcounter.com/

Two Iraq Wars' worth of deaths every year. That's AMERICAN innovation.

[fromtia]

I felt like Macron and Starmer did fairly well on their visits to our capricious new king and his court. Zelensky today was a pretty depressing scene. Vance is a staggering ass clown.

[Syt]

Hey fromtia, nice to see you check in. Hope you're keeping well in these times.

[Valmy]

I guess Legbiter was correct, we are seeing preference falsification.

Huh? Explain.

[Savonarola]

Oh, and we fired 800 people from NOAA.  I kept help but think that weather predictions is something useful the government does.

The Project 2025 people see NOAA as among the lead perpetrators in what they call "The climate alarm industry."

This concerns me a great deal, as I think between this and cuts in FEMA there's a real risk of a Katrina level catastrophe this hurricane season.

[Grey Fox]

Things need to crash so that the Oligarch can buy it on the cheap.

[Valmy]

Oh, and we fired 800 people from NOAA.  I kept help but think that weather predictions is something useful the government does.

The Project 2025 people see NOAA as among the lead perpetrators in what they call "The climate alarm industry."

This concerns me a great deal, as I think between this and cuts in FEMA there's a real risk of a Katrina level catastrophe this hurricane season.

They seem weirdly eager for a total disaster in so many areas. Between this and the health stuff. They seem to want huge natural disasters and infectious disease to sweep through the country.

[Jacob]

They seem weirdly eager for a total disaster in so many areas. Between this and the health stuff. They seem to want huge natural disasters and infectious disease to sweep through the country.

I really wonder about that. I can see four main explanations:

1) They genuinely do want bad things to happen for whatever individual or long term political reasons.

2) They have an ideological commitment to letting "the free market" respond rather than government, and are willing to let people die for that ideology.

3) They genuinely believe that the relevant government agencies "do nothing", so cutting them won't make a difference.

4) They think of any potential disasters primarily as a PR and narrative issue, and it's cheaper to spin up solutions as media narratives than actually spend to mitigate risks and/ or provide solutions. If people die or do not die doesn't really matter to them, as long as they can maintain the narratives with the people that matter to their political agendas.

[mongers]

Breaking News:

Putin's lifeless body found in auto-erotic posture.

[Josquius]

The trumpys are increasingly overt in supporting eugenics. The far right have traditionally long had this huge love of the male form and body building, since covid this has clearly had huge anti vaxer vibes to it.
It makes sense that they actually do want people to die - these people were genetically inferior and deserved to go in their book.
I wonder whether they'll be tossing out any rules about allergen notification too.